RE: [cp-patches] Implementing Thread.sleep() via Thread.wait()

[Jeroen Frijters]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > +   * A zero length sleep is equivalent to 
> <code>Thread.yield()</code>.
> 
> I think this is not a good idea. This is not supported by any
> documentation. And I agree with you that it is probably a bug in the
> implementation you tested and filed a bug report for the fact that
> sleep(0) seems to ignore the interrupted state of the Thread. 
> And if we want to add this bug to our implementation (and I think
> we shouldn't) why Thread.yield(), why not just return?

As we apparently can't seem to agree on this, at the very least lets
just leave open the option for the VM to do whatever it wants (as I
originally proposed).

Regards,
Jeroen